Netflix to open source orchestration framework

Netflix is hoping to open source a system it built to orchestrate the machine learning workflows that improve recommendations to users on what to watch next. The streaming giant first revealed the Meson orchestration and scheduling framework in a blog post last week, but used last week’s Spark Summit in San Francisco to flesh out the project. “Netflix has one primary goal – we want to delight every single member every single time you interact with Netflix, and the delight really means we want to be able to help you find content that you will love and enjoy every time you interact with the service,” senior software engineer Kedar Sadekar told the summit. “Happy customers will play more [content] and watch more. The driving force behind our efforts is really the…